GOOSEFOOT FAMILY 



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Fig. 



1499. 



2. Monolepis spathulata A. Gray. Club-leaved Monolepis. 



Monolepis spathulata A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 389. 1868. 



Plants much branched from the base, the branches simple, decumbent or ascending, 3-15 cm. 

 long, glabrous or the young parts mealy. Leaves narrowly spatulate, 5-15 mm. long, entire, 

 fleshy; flower clusters sessile, many-flowered; sepal spatulate, obtuse; pericarp papillose, free 

 from the seed ; seed . 4 mm. broad. 



Alkaline soils, Transition Zone; Idaho and eastern Oregon to the Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains, California; also northern Lower California. Type locality: Mono Pass, Sierra Nevada, California. June- 

 Sept. 



3. Monolepis pusilla Torr. Dwarf Monolepis. Fig. 1500. 



Monolepis pusilla Torr. ex S. Wats. Bot. King Expl. 289. 1871. 



Plants dichotomously much branched, the branches very slender, spreading, 4-20 cm. high, 

 mealy when young, becoming glabrous. Leaves oblong, entire, 4-12 mm. long, short-petioled ; 

 flower clusters sessile, 1-5-flowered; sepals obtuse; pericarp tuberculate, adherent to the seed; 

 seed 0.5 mm. broad. 



Alkaline soils, Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones; eastern Washington and Wyoming to Colorado and 

 California. Type locality: alkaline valleys of western Nevada. May-July. 



Spinacia oleracea L. Sp. PI. 1027. 1753. Spinach. Annual glabrous herbs. Leaves large, ovate-triangular 

 or hastate, entire or irregularly toothed; flowers dioecious or rarely perfect; staminate flowers with 4-5-parted 

 perianth; pistillate without perianth, subtended by 2 united bracts. Spinach is extensively cultivated in the 

 Pacific States, and quite often is established as an escape, especially in low slightly saline soils. 



1497. Cycloloma atriplicifolium 



1498. Monolepis Nuttalliana 



1499. Monolepis spathulata 



1500. Monolepis pusilla 



